Ian Bethell-Bennett is a professor of English, adjunct in the School of Social Sciences, and former dean of Liberal and Fine Arts at the University of The Bahamas. He participated in National Exhibition 7, NE8, NE9, NE 10 as well as in 2018 Double Dutch Hot Water with Plastico Fantastico, and Evolution of the Arc. He has co-edited Tourism, Governance and Sustainability in The Bahamas (Routledge, 2020) with Sophia Rolle and Jessica Minnis and Pandemics, Disasters, Sustainability, Tourism: An Examination of Impact on and Resilience in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (Emerald 2022) with Minnis, Rolle and Fevzi Okuus.

“It is a very important contribution to cultural and development studies and other fields - and will, without doubt, find its way to teaching and research bibliographies.” • Tom Selwyn, Research Associate at SOAS and a Visiting Professor at Breda University, The Netherlands, and Bethlehem University

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionIan Bethell-Bennett and Jessica MinnisPart I: Establishing Identity in Place and SpaceChapter 1. Puerto Rico’s Path Towards More Inclusive Notions of Identity and Social Justice: Notes from About Emerging Voices and Trends in the Twenty-First-Century Electoral SceneRaymond Laureano-OrtizChapter 2. The Impact of Colonialism on Identity, Education and Justice in St. MartinRhoda ArrindellChapter 3. ‘Raizality’ and the Meaning of ‘Being HomeMorgane Le GuyaderChapter 4. Moving to the ‘Other’ Space: Reimagining Indo-Trinidadian Women’s Identity in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging BridgeMayuri DekaPart II: Gender (In)Justices in Place and SpaceChapter 5. So You Went to Convent: Education, Social Mobility and Civil SocietyAlison McLetchieChapter 6. ‘Small Up in the Space Lady!’ Gender, Space, Place and the Caribbean Catholic ChurchAnna Kasafi PerkinsChapter 7. Unmasking the Culture of Ignorance in The BahamasNatino ThompsonChapter 8. Home, Space, Place, Violence, Gender: Does Violence Rest in Places?Ian Bethell-BennettPart III: Environmental Dynamics in Place and SpaceChapter 9. Caribbean Falling and the Unsayable RealMichael T. StevensonChapter 10. The Uglification of Jamaica: A Question of Landscape ValuesBrian HudsonPart IV: Recolonialisation in Place and SpaceChapter 11. Engineering Space: How Place is Being Remade by New Understandings of Settler ColoniesIan Bethell-BennettChapter 12. Food Deserts: The Coloniality of Power and Spatial (In)Justice in The BahamasIan Bethell-BennettConclusion: Is This (Really) My Island in the Sun?Ian Bethell-Bennett and Jessica MinnisIndex